Six stages from intent to a running company.
Each stage has an owning agent, a cost envelope, an explicit human gate, and a documented failure mode. This is the operating shape of the platform.
- 01stage
Intake conversation
Structured business brief + category classification + in/out-of-scope determination.
Intake agent15-45 min~$3 in tokensHuman gate
None — no actions taken yet
- 02stage
Feasibility & market scan
Market sizing, competitive teardown (top 5), regulatory scan, viability score.
Research agent (supervised)4-12 hours overnight$15-40Human gate
Founder reviews before any provisioning. Hard stop.
- 03stage
Entity & infrastructure
Delaware LLC, EIN, business bank, payment processor, registered agent.
Formation agent1-3 weeks$500-1,500 third-partyHuman gate
Founder signature + ID; KYC at bank; TOS acceptance.
- 04stage
Product build
Deployed product on subdomain; custom domain after approval.
Engineering agents3-14 days$50-500 computeHuman gate
Production deploy, payments code, PII code — all founder-gated.
- 05stage
Pre-launch validation
Validated demand signal or pivot recommendation.
GTM agent1-2 weeks$20-80 + ad budgetHuman gate
Any paid spend >$50; any outbound campaign; any customer interview.
- 06stage
Launch & operate
Acquisition, revenue, support, content — under continuous human governance.
Full agent topologycontinuous$300-2,500/moHuman gate
Action taxonomy (Category 1-6).
Every agent action is classified before execution.
Categories are enforced in the orchestration layer — not in prompts. Prompt jailbreaks cannot escalate an action's category.
Drafting copy, internal research, sandboxed codegen, querying owned data.
Gate: None
Publish blog post, update product description, schedule social post.
Gate: Post-hoc notification; one-click revert
Paid ad spend within preset cap, third-party API usage.
Gate: Budget check; alert at 80%; stop at 100%
Production deploy, bulk outbound email, refund over threshold, pricing change.
Gate: Typed approval; 24-hour proposal window
LLC formation, bank account opening, tax filings, contracts above threshold.
Gate: Founder approval + counsel/CPA routing
Securities issuance, W-2 hiring, healthcare/legal/financial advice, sanctions transactions.
Gate: Hard refusal at orchestration layer; incident logged
One Tenant Supervisor per child company.
Each tenant runs as a supervised Elixir/OTP process tree. Five departments, each a thin custom layer over the Vercel AI SDK with per-tenant context isolation, per-call provider routing, and full audit instrumentation.
Tenant Supervisor (Elixir process) ├── Engineering Planner · Executor · Reviewer ├── Operations Support (read-only) · Internal ops · Escalation ├── GTM Content · Paid (gated) · Analytics · Lead handling ├── Finance Bookkeeping · Sales tax monitor · Reporting ├── Compliance Policy monitor · Filing reminder · Regulatory scanner └── Cross-cutting Memory consolidator · Cost monitor · Approval router · Audit logger
See governance for the approval-gate flow and trust for tenant isolation guarantees.